Mary Fairchild MacMonnies’ “Garden in Giverny” has gone out on loan for a three venue traveling exhibition.
The first object from the Swope Collection on loan for the 2010 exhibition season!
“Garden in Giverny” will travel with the exhibition “Impressionists in the Garden” to the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum, then to the Tampa Museum of [...]
It is common to think of visiting an art museum as a solitary activity. And it can be conducive to quiet contemplation. However, as I found out a couple of days ago, viewing art with a group can focus your attention on things you might overlook on your own. For this months American Art 101 [...]
I often get the question- “What is your favorite work in the collection?” or people ask me to make a value judgment on a work. It is awkward and I usually come up with a lame and boring answer like “I love all my children equally.” It would be disingenuous to say I am [...]
From Saturday until Wednesday, I was in the Twin Cities at the Association of Midwest Museum annual conference held in St. Paul, MN. I met a lot of people, got several new ideas from other institutions and had a wonderful time exploring the various museums around the area. Some highlights:
John Rogers Cox
White Cloud
1943
Oil and acrylic on canvas
37 x 45 ½ inches
Swope Art Museum Collection, 2000.07
John Rogers Cox (1915-1990), a Terre Haute artist and the first director of the Swope Art Museum, portrayed the Midwest through a fantastical lens focused on the minutia of the American landscape. Often called a magical realist, Cox was interested [...]
The Alliance of the Swope Art Museum was awarded first prize in Arts Illiana’s Tablescapes fundraiser. The award was determined by visitor votes during the four-day exhibition of tables decorated by local businesses, agencies and individuals. The Alliance of the Swope created a ‘Moroccan fantasy’ table setting inspired by the painting Harem Girl by Oliver [...]
Last night, walking the dogs again, the moon was nearly full but behind a cloudy-almost-overcast sky. There was enough light to discern rudimentary shapes but it was diffused and projected no shadows. I began to feel a familiar sensation.
I’m often struck by how a painting, that first seemed foreign to me, slaps back into my [...]
Al and I conducted this interview in early July 2008, by e-mail because cross time zone telephone just seemed too cumbersome. The work discussed in the interview will be featured in the Swope’s fall exhibit: Umbria from the eye of Al Pounders, October 17, 2008– January 03, 2009.
LP: Al, I understand you have been visiting [...]
In the travel section in this Sunday’s NYTimes, there was an interesting article about Edward Hopper’s work on the Cape in Turo, Mass where he spent his summers. The Swope’s painting by Hopper, Route 6, Eastham, was done in this area. An interesting read.
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing No. 652, 1990,
Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Who straightens the study table?
A Yayoi Kusama, I could fall into it and fall forever and ever.
Laylah Ali makes me think but also makes me giggle.
A lot of little men holding up the floor, or appearing to hold up the floor.
Holzer. Hmmm. [...]
